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Vials of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in Jackson, Miss.

Moderna to build manufacturing plant in Africa

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Moderna announces plans to build a manufacturing plant in Africa, capable of producing up to 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines per year. Also, Germany and Denmark repatriate women and children from the Roj prison camp in northeastern Syria that’s held suspected ISIS members. And Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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The Netherlands' Minister of Kingdom Relations Ronald Plasterk (2nd L, top) helps adjust costumes of participants from Curacao before their boat leaves for the festival's canal parade in Amsterdam, the Netherlands August 1, 2015.

Online sports gambling hums along thanks to a tiny Dutch colony in the Caribbean

Justice

The tiny island of Curaçao is home to many e-commerce companies. But a big business is sports gambling. Billions of dollars pass through the country annually.

The famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" sign on the south end of the Strip lit up on June 15, 2014. Casinos in Sin City are using big data to track customers with the goal they will keep coming back.

What happens in Vegas, stays in a Vegas casino’s database

Books

We all know the saying about Vegas, but be aware that all of things that stay in Vegas still end up in the huge data repositories of casinos. Adam Tanner’s new book tracks how they’re vacuuming up every bit of information they can on their customers to keep people coming back.

A visitor to the Shell Club, a sports and social venue, plays a slot machine near the Shell Oil refinery in Geelong, Australia.

Even when you’re losing, slot machines boost your morale — and casino profits

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This isn’t your granddad’s gambling industry: As casinos spread and habits change, slot machines have become a massive part of casino profits — as much as 85 percent. They’re doing so partly by giving gamblers the illusion of winning, even when they’re falling behind.

Australia moves to rein in pervasive gambling messages in sports

Australia allows wide-ranging gambling on sports, and until recently allowed it to be discussed on sports broadcasts as well. But as the amount of gambling advertising exploded recently, the government balked. Now broadcasters are proposing their own code of conduct.

Chips Funga: Kenyans transform term for French fries into slang for one-night stand

The term Chips Funga is taking Kenya by storm. It’s the name for the popular French fries that club-goers might eat after a night out on the town. But it’s also become a slang term for when a man meets a women and takes her home for a one-night stand. There’s a related term for when the shoe is on the other foot, too.